Amazon Prime Music Arrives!

After months of rumor and speculation, Amazon Prime Music has arrived. And, as with other Prime benefits, the streaming service is effectively free for existing Prime members ($99/yr). At launch, Amazon’s collection pales in comparison to other streaming music services, such as Spotify. Yet, as The Verge notes, it doesn’t have to compete head-on. Prime Music is a just-nice-enough perk that it’ll surely replace my $4/mo Pandora and provides another reason to stick with Prime (despite LaserShip’s ongoing delivery challenges).

As to the service itself, it’s an interesting ad-free hybrid of albums, tracks, and playlists… with favorites ending up cross-pollinating your library of Amazon music purchases. In fact, anything tagged Prime can be downloaded for offline listening. Sadly, Amazon “Cloud Player” joins “Unbox” in the digital media dustbin as the e-tailer goes with the clear, yet dull, “Amazon Music” app branding for iOS and Android. Regarding app distribution, Fire TV support remains notably absent and my Sonos connected speaker system hasn’t yet been updated. Soon?

Given how the purchased music lives with Prime stuff, Amazon could become my one-stop shop – especially on Sonos (once updated). I already have a bunch of Amazon purchases and will see about uploading my iTunes collection, dependent on bandwidth limits/charges — don’t recall what the current situation is.

Amazon Prime Music seems nice, but they have a new app now. I downloaded it yesterday and I’ve tried it on two tablets and one cellphone. And it won’t switch to landsacpe mode. Which is how I mostly view these apps. So right now for me, I’m not very happy with the app since I use it daily for my personal music.

The old Amazon Music app would switch to landscape mode. I have no idea why the new one doesn’t it. It’s especially a pain on the tablets because to listen to music in stereo the tablet is in landscape mode. But with the new app it is sideways on the screen since it stays in portrait mode.

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